Alzheimer's & Dementia Outreach, Recruitment & Engagement Resources
Caregivers
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- This infographic from the Stanford Alzheimer's Disease Research Center presents illustrated images and facts about Latino caregivers.
- NIA has created four video stories profiling participants in Alzheimer’s disease clinical trials. These videos feature participants from different walks of life who discuss what motivates them and how research staff support them to participate in studies and trials. The videos are intended to be shared as part of engagement and recruitment efforts for clinical studies. Each video was made with a specific audience in mind: Will’s Story —When both of Will’s parents developed dementia, he and his...
- Online advertising is a new frontier in research recruitment and Google Adwords is one method of online advertising. However, only a handful of studies have described its cost and effectiveness and none have focused on older adults. This study created a Google Adwords campaign to recruit family caregivers of people with dementia. The study found that the ads were viewed more than 450,000 times in a 6-week period, but only 49 surveys were completed, at a cost of $122 per survey. The paper...
- This study tested different types of appeals to participate in research studies. A random sample of 2,014 caregiving units (composed of an older adult, a family member, and a home care worker) were obtained from a list of Israeli long-term care insurance beneficiaries. Participants received either a formal and succinctly phrased letter followed by a recruitment phone call; the formal letter, but a revised, more personal recruitment phone call; or a revised letter and a revised phone call. The...
- A two-sided informational card that provides seven frequently asked questions about brain donation and a testimonial from a Chinese-American study partner.
- This paper describes the barriers and challenges experienced by a research team in recruiting early-stage dementia caregiving dyads into research studies. Among other factors, the team found that recruitment and enrollment success depended on having well-trained recruitment staff who are knowledgeable about the study and have experience working with older adults, and more specifically, persons with dementia. Szabo SM, Whitlatch CJ, Orsulic-JEras S, et al. Recruitment challenges and strategies...
- Researchers' use of Internet-based surveys and recruitment strategies has increased, but there is little knowledge about their use in different age groups of former dementia caregivers. This analysis describes the use of Internet-based recruitment in young and middle-aged (age 18-64), young-old (age 65-74), and older-old (age 75 and older) former dementia caregivers. A four-step recruitment strategy encompassing a combination of Internet-based and non-Internet-based recruitment strategies was...
- Webnovela Mirela is a program for Hispanic/Latino caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer's or other dementia.
- This study evaluated the yield and cost of three recruitment strategies—direct mail, newspaper advertisements, and community outreach—for identifying and enrolling dementia caregivers into a trial testing a nonpharmacologic approach to enhancing quality of life of individuals with dementia and their caregivers. A total of 237 dyads enrolled. The total cost of recruitment was $154 per dyad, with direct mail found to be the most effective and least costly method, at $63 per dyad. That compared...
- This editorial pertains to African American caregivers of people with dementia, specifically those with type 2 diabetes. The author reviews barriers to recruitment for this population and the experience of church-based recruiting of caregivers age 55 and older with diabetes who also care for a person with dementia. Important factors to success included a respected gatekeeper and relationship building. Barriers included the religious interpretation of dementia behaviors that produced stigma among...